Advances in Motivation Science (eBook)

Andrew J. Elliot (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
286 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
9780128005989 (ISBN)

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Elsevier are proud to introduce our brand new serial, Advances in Motivation Science. The topic of motivation has traditionally been one of the mainstays of the science of psychology. It played a major role in early dynamic and Gestalt models of the mind and it was fundamental to behaviorist theories of learning and action. The advent of the cognitive revolution in the 1960 and 70s eclipsed the emphasis on motivation to a large extent, but in the past two decades motivation has returned en force. Today, motivational analyses of affect, cognition, and behavior are ubiquitous across psychological literatures and disciplines; motivation is not just a 'hot topic on the contemporary scene, but is firmly entrenched as a foundational issue in scientific psychology. This volume brings together internationally recognized experts focusing on cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions in this important area of psychology. - Elsevier's brand new serial focusing on the field of motivation science and research - Provides an overview of important research programs conducted by the most respected scholars in psychology - Special attention on directions for future research

Andrew J. Elliot is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. His research areas include achievement motivation, approach-avoidance motivation, the development of motivation and self-regulation, and subtle cue and context effects on psychological functioning. He has been (or currently is) an Associate Editor at Emotion, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and has edited two handbooks: Handbook of competence and motivation (with Carol Dweck) and Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. He has over 170 scholarly publications, has received research grants from public and private agencies, and has been awarded multiple awards for his research contributions.

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Elsevier are proud to introduce our brand new serial, Advances in Motivation Science. The topic of motivation has traditionally been one of the mainstays of the science of psychology. It played a major role in early dynamic and Gestalt models of the mind and it was fundamental to behaviorist theories of learning and action. The advent of the cognitive revolution in the 1960 and 70s eclipsed the emphasis on motivation to a large extent, but in the past two decades motivation has returned en force. Today, motivational analyses of affect, cognition, and behavior are ubiquitous across psychological literatures and disciplines; motivation is not just a "e;hot topic on the contemporary scene, but is firmly entrenched as a foundational issue in scientific psychology. This volume brings together internationally recognized experts focusing on cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions in this important area of psychology. - Elsevier's brand new serial focusing on the field of motivation science and research- Provides an overview of important research programs conducted by the most respected scholars in psychology- Special attention on directions for future research

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Advances in Motivation Science 2
Advances in Motivation Science 4
Copyright 
5 
Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Preface 10
Parochial Cooperation in Humans: Forms and Functions of Self-Sacrifice in Intergroup Conflict 12
1. Introduction 13
2. Origins and Orchestration of Parochial Cooperation 15
2.1 (Inter)Group Life as a Multilevel Social Dilemma 16
2.2 Forms and Functions of Parochial Cooperation 20
3. Parochial Cooperation Rests on In-Group Love More Than on Out-Group Hate 22
3.1 Intergroup Discrimination in Cooperative Decision-Making 22
3.2 Social Identity Striving and Group Interdependence 24
4. Indirect Reciprocity and Reputation 26
4.1 Reputation Concerns and Indirect Reciprocity Motivate Parochial Cooperation 27
4.2 Reputation and Social Standing Benefits from Parochial Cooperation 29
4.3 Summary and Conclusions 30
5. Parochialism is More Prominent among Prosocial Individuals 31
5.1 Prosocial Individuals Escalate Intergroup Conflict 31
5.2 Prosocial Representatives are Parochial in Intergroup Bargaining 33
5.3 Summary and Conclusions 35
6. Parochialism is Sustained by Hypothalamic Oxytocin 35
6.1 Oxytocin Enables Parochial Cooperation 36
6.2 Oxytocin Motivates Defensive Aggression 38
6.3 Oxytocin Motivates In-Group Serving Dishonesty 40
6.4 Summary and Conclusions 41
7. Discussion and Research Agenda 41
7.1 Evolutionary Perspectives versus Social Identity Perspectives 42
7.2 Hypotheses Inspired by Biological Models 45
7.3 The Role of Emotions in Parochial Cooperation 46
7.4 Reinvigorating Experimental Games and Expanding Its Base 47
7.5 Parochialism and Intergroup Cooperation 48
8. Coda 49
References 50
Affective Consequences of Intentional Action Control 60
1. Introduction 61
2. Selection and Affective Devaluation 63
2.1 Attentional Selection and Devaluation 63
2.2 Response Suppression and Devaluation 64
3. Underlying Mechanisms of Distractor Devaluation 65
3.1 Devaluation-by-Inhibition Assumption 65
3.2 Evaluative Labels 67
4. Interference and Affective Devaluation 68
4.1 Cognitive Interference 68
4.2 Motivational Interference 73
5. Consequences of Distractor Devaluation 74
5.1 Distractor Devaluation and Social Attitudes 74
5.2 Benefits of Distractor Devaluation for Action Control 79
5.2.1 Potential Consequences for Cognitive Processing 79
5.2.2 Potential Consequences for Behavioral Avoidance 81
5.2.2.1 Negative Priming 82
5.2.2.2 Dealing with Attractive Alternative Partners 83
5.2.2.3 Distractor Evaluations and Subsequent Selection 84
6. Conclusion 86
References 88
Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance 96
1. The Roots of TMT and Research 97
2. The Core of TMT and Research 99
2.1 Mortality Salience and the Worldview 101
2.2 TMT and Prejudice 102
2.3 TMT and Self-Esteem 103
2.4 Threats to Terror Management Structures and Death Thought Accessibility 104
2.5 Death and Animality 104
2.6 The Role of Affect in MS Effects 105
2.7 The Dual Defense Model 106
3. The Many Branches of TMT and Research 108
3.1 TMT and Politics 109
3.2 Terror Management and Religious Faith 111
3.3 Love and Death 114
3.4 The Roles of Parents and Children in Terror Management 115
3.5 TMT and Health 116
3.6 The Emerging Neuroscience of Terror Management 119
4. How Death Relates to Other Types of Threats 122
4.1 The Role of Uncertainty, Meaning, Control, and Interpersonal Relations in TMT 123
4.2 Do Other Threats Sometimes Produce Effects Similar to MS? 124
4.3 Conceptual Problems with Alternatives to TMT 125
4.3.1 Uncertainty 126
4.3.2 Meaning Threat 127
4.3.3 Death Is Not Living 128
4.4 Threat-General and Threat-Specific Aspects of Coping 128
5. The Positive Potential of Terror Management 131
5.1 Constructive Consequences of Proximal Terror Management 131
5.2 Constructive Consequences of Distal Terror Management 132
6. All Leaves Must Fall 134
References 134
“Happiness” and “The Good Life” as Motives Working Together Effectively 146
1. Introduction 147
2. Happiness as Desire-Satisfaction 148
3. Beyond Pleasure and Pain 150
3.1 Regulatory Focus Theory and the Experience of Pleasure and Pain 151
3.2 Regulatory Focus Theory and the Perception of Pleasure and Pain 152
4. Beyond Value 155
4.1 Truth Motives 156
4.2 Control Motives 159
5. Beyond Maximization 162
5.1 Character Strengths and Virtues 164
5.2 Regulatory Fit 165
6. Effective Organization of Motives 168
6.1 Motivations Working Together 168
6.2 Situational to Chronic Regulatory Fit 171
7. Implications of the “Good Life” as the EOM 176
7.1 Animal Welfare Science 176
7.2 Moral Psychology 179
8. Final Comment 183
References 184
Ideological Differences in Epistemic Motivation: Implications for Attitude Structure, Depth of Information Processing, Susc ... 192
1. Introduction 193
2. Ideological Symmetries and Asymmetries in Motivated Reasoning 196
3. A Theory of Political Ideology as Motivated Social Cognition 199
4. Are There Ideological Asymmetries in Attitude Structure? 203
4.1 A Large-Scale Internet Study 204
4.2 Indirect Measure of Attitude Strength: Correspondence between “Gut” and “Actual” Reactions 205
4.3 Metacognitive Indices of Attitude Strength 205
4.3.1 Ideological Differences in Attitudinal Certainty, Stability, Elaboration, Ambivalence, and Dimensional Polarity 211
4.3.2 Self-Deception and Other Mediators of the Relationship between Conservatism and Metacognitive Attitude Strength 212
4.4 Ideological Asymmetries in Implicit-Explicit Attitude Correspondence 215
5. Are There Ideological Asymmetries in Susceptibility and Resistance to Different Types of Persuasive Influence? 217
5.1 Ideological Differences in Heuristic versus Systematic Processing 218
5.2 Ideological Differences in Susceptibility to Implicit vs. Explicit Forms of Attitude Change 223
6. Are There Ideological Asymmetries in Reliance on Stereotypical Cues? 227
7. Concluding Remarks 231
References 235
Neurobiological Concomitants of Motivational States 244
1. Introduction 245
1.1 Emotion and Neurobiology 246
1.2 Stress and Neurobiology 248
2. Biological Systems Underlying Motivational States: Mood Rings, Tea Leaves, and Psychophysiology 250
2.1 Autonomic Nervous System 254
2.1.1 Cardiovascular Theories 255
2.1.2 Heart Rate Variability 257
2.2 Neural Activity: Electroencephalogram 259
2.2.1 Relative Left Frontal Activity and Approach Motivation 259
2.2.2 Error-Related Negativity and Defensive Motivational Responses 261
2.3 Neuroendocrine 262
2.4 Cellular Biology 264
3. Moderators of Motivational States 265
3.1 Context 265
3.2 Thoughts Alter Motivational States 267
3.3 Developmental Factors 269
3.4 Sociocultural Environment 272
4. Summary 274
References 274
Index 282

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Chapter One

Parochial Cooperation in Humans: Forms and Functions of Self-Sacrifice in Intergroup Conflict

Carsten K.W. De Dreu∗,1, Daniel Balliet§ and Nir Halevy¶     ∗University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology and Center for Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), The Netherlands     §VU University Amsterdam, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, The Netherlands     ¶Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA
1 Corresponding author: E-mail: [e-mail] 

Abstract

Although cooperation between groups is not unusual, most forms of human cooperation are in-group bounded and, sometimes, motivated by the desire to ward-off and subordinate rivaling out-groups. Building on evolutionary perspectives and models, we propose that humans evolved a capacity for parochial cooperation, which entails (1) in-group love: the tendency to cooperate with and extend trust toward those others who are similar, familiar rather than unfamiliar, and belong to one's own group; and (2) out-group hate: a willingness to fight against rivaling out-groups. This chapter reviews our own work, and that of others, showing that parochial cooperation (1) emerges especially when it benefits individuals' within-group reputation, (2) affects one's within-group status, (3) is more prominent among individuals with chronic prosocial rather than proself value orientation, and (4) is sustained and motivated by oxytocin, an evolutionary ancient hypothalamic neuropeptide pivotal in social bonding, pair–bond formation, and empathic responding. Across the board, findings resonate well with relatively recent evolutionary theory on (inter)group relations and add to classic theory in social psychology.

Keywords

Altruism; Competition; Decision-making; Endocrinology; Intergroup relations

1. Introduction

May 1940, World War II is raging through Europe and after 10 days of resistance, the Dutch army surrenders and German forces occupy the Netherlands. During the first year, the Germans impose their increasingly severe anti-Jewish regulations. In Amsterdam, and elsewhere, signs that read “Jews Prohibited” appear at entrances to cafés, theaters, parks, and other public places. Jews are dismissed from government jobs and their children are sent home from school. In the summer of 1942, deportations begin. Those without a place to hide do not stand a chance and, eventually, over 80% of all Jewish men, women, and children living in Amsterdam are transported to concentration camps in Eastern Europe, where they are murdered.

One of these people was Walter Süskind, a refugee from Germany and member of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. He lived with his family close to a nursery where the Nazis put young Jewish children before deportation. In utmost secrecy and risking their lives every day, Süskind and a small group of confidents rescued children through the backyard of the nursery, from where they went, in a backpack or laundry basket, to rural areas in the Netherlands. Estimates are that they saved about 600 children. Süskind and his family, however, were captured, deported, and killed in late 1944, just a few months before World War II ended.

October 1991, Chechnya, a mostly rural region in the North Caucasus declares independence from Russia and thousands of people of non-Chech ethnicity leave the newly established republic amidst reports of discrimination and violence. In the following 10 years, the country is crippled by two separatist wars against Russian army forces, leaving families, households, farms, and factories destroyed. By early 2000, Moscow enforces full control over Chechnya and its neighboring states in the North Caucasus, including Ossetia and Dagestan.

It is against this background that Dmitry Sokolov, a student in Moscow with roots in Chechnya, carefully takes the explosive belt with 500 g of TNT equivalent and filled with sharp metal objects and dowel pins. He straps the belt to Naida Asiyalova, the women he fell in love with less than three years ago and who recruited him to join the rebels in her native Dagestan. In those past three years, Dmitry and Naida converted into Muslim faith and became increasingly fanatic. And on October 23, 2013, with rush hour just setting in, Naida blew herself up in a bus near the Russian town of Volgorad, killing herself along with five others, and injuring another thirty.1

Different as they are, the stories about Süskind and Asiyalova share three elements that are at the core of the current chapter. Both Walter Süskind and Naida Asiyalova operated in a small group of people sharing a common purpose and fate, and working together to achieve that purpose. Both these individuals, and their groups, operated in an intergroup setting marked by competition, conflict, and extreme violence. And both Süskind and Asiyalova risked and sacrificed their lives to bring their group's goal closer—to save Jewish children from the gas chambers, to prevent the Nazis from achieving their goals, to bring closer an independent North Caucasus, and to hurt Russians for past war cruelty and oppression.

Here we try to understand this set of observations: That humans self-sacrifice to promote the survival, cause, and prosperity of the groups they belong to, and that such self-sacrifice may take benign and prosocial, but also utterly hateful and destructive forms. We wonder whether the self-sacrificial “in-group love” by Süskind and the self-sacrificial “out-group hate” by Asiyalova are confined to a handful of heroes and fanatics, or whether milder traces of such tendencies rest within each of us, and affect our day-to-day behavior. We surmise that these prosocial and antisocial tendencies may not be as distinct as they seem, and may be, in fact, brighter and darker sides of the same coin. We explore the possibility that prosocial martyrdom and spiteful terror share motivational and neurobiological roots, and we identify chronic predispositions, and social psychological conditions that amplify or restrain human willingness to self-sacrifice in intergroup conflicts.

We proceed as follows. Section 2 reviews game-theoretic, social psychological, and evolutionary models' assertions about self-sacrifice in intergroup competition and conflict. Although these perspectives make sometimes competing predictions, they converge on the core proposition that in intergroup settings, self-sacrifice and cooperation is parochial (in-group oriented and bounded), with its ultimate function to increase inclusive fitness (Alexander, 1990; Bowles & Gintis, 2011). Accordingly, parochial cooperation is motivated by, and manifested in (1) protecting and promoting the in-group (henceforth in-group love), and (2) derogating and fighting more or less rivaling out-groups (henceforth out-group hate).

In Section 3 we consider in-group love and out-group hate in more detail, and review our experimental and meta-analytic studies suggesting that in-group love is primary to out-group hate in motivating parochial cooperation. Section 4 asks whether, when, and how displays of parochial cooperation depend on reputation concerns, and influences within-group reputation and status. Section 5 relates parochial cooperation, and in-group love and out-group hate, to individual differences in social value orientation—the chronic tendency to value personal outcomes only (individualistic), or instead personal and others' outcomes alike (prosocial). Section 6 traces parochial cooperation back to oxytocin—a neurohormonal modulator of social bonding, pair–bond formation, and empathy. In Section 7 we summarize the main conclusions and implications for contemporary theory on human cooperation in intergroup competition and conflict. We conclude with avenues for future research.

2. Origins and Orchestration of Parochial Cooperation

Humans are group-living, social animals and much of their evolutionary success has been attributed to their strong capacity for cooperation and collective action (Wilson, 2012). Humans create cohesive groups and, more than any other species, engage in complex forms of cooperative exchange with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others (Nowak, Tarnita, & Wilson, 2010). It is within such groups that negotiation and trade evolved (Horan, Bulte, & Shoran, 2005); social and technological innovations were designed, disseminated, and implemented (Wynn, Coolidge, & Bright, 2009; Flinn, Ponzy, & Muehlenbein, 2012); artistic expressions and cultural rituals developed (Zilhao, 2007); and ways to disseminate knowledge, insights, values, and preferences were perfected (Baumeister, Masicampo, & Vohs, 2011; Nijstad & De Dreu, 2012).

2.1. (Inter)Group Life as a Multilevel Social Dilemma

One core reason that humans evolved into such social animals is that creating and promoting group life increases individual survival and prosperity probabilities well beyond what individuals could achieve in isolation. It is because humans work hard, contribute accurate information and solid insights to the group, adequately process others' contributions, and stick to agreed-upon rules and regulations; so that the group avoids disaster, reaches high quality decisions, and prospers (De Dreu, Nijstad & Van Knippenberg, 2008). And being part of such strong, well-functioning, and innovative groups provides fitness functionality to...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• ISBN-13: 9780128005989 / 9780128005989